Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2010 • Ghana
Akosua Adoma Owusu draws on the Afrofuturist legends propagated by the underground Detroit-based band Drexciya—about a mythical underwater subcontinent populated by the unborn children of African women thrown overboard during the Transatlantic slave trade—for her portrait of a once-grand, now abandoned public swimming facility in Accra, Ghana.
Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2012 • United States
Playful yet powerful, Akosua Adoma Owusu’s SPLIT ENDS, I FEEL WONDERFUL focuses on African American women’s hair, spinning found footage of 1970s New York hair salons and hairstyles into a dense collage of gesture and image.
Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2013 • Ghana
Starring Jojo Abot, Koo Nimo, Grace Omaboe
Drawing upon the rich mythology of Ghana, this magical short combines semiautobiographical elements with local folklore to tell the story of a young American woman who returns to West Africa for her father’s...
Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2015 • United States
BUS NUT examines the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social protest against U.S. racial segregation on the public-transit system of Montgomery, Alabama, and its relationship to an educational video on school-bus safety.
